Benjamin scaeles



UNITED STATES PATENT Erica,

BENJAMIN SCARLES, OF CLINTON,V MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIG-NOR TO THE CLINTON URE CLOTH COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,257, dated October 2, 1888.

Application filed May 25, 1887. Serial No. 239,310. (No model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN SeAELEs, of Clinton, in the county of Worcester, State of lVIassaehusett-s, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in "Wire Fences, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said. invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,forming part ofthisspecification, in Which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of myim proved fence, and Fig. 2 an enlarged perspective View showing the method of securing each alternate slat in the wires.

Likeletters of reference indicate correspond ing parts in the different figures of the drawings.

My present invention is designed as an in1- provenient on the invention shown and described in Letters Patent of the United States No. 853,328, which were granted to me No Vember 30, 1886, for an improvement in wire fences, and it consists in certain novel details of construction, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, the object being to produce a more desirable article of this character than is now in ordinary use.

In the fence patented to me as aforesaid the wires are arranged horizontally in parallelism with each other, and do not, therefore, act to brace77 the slats properly. The method of securing the wires to the slats is also slightly defective, rendering the wiresliable in some cases to slip downward on the slats and cause defects in the fence. These objections are overcome by my present improvement, the nature of which will be readily understood by all eonversant with such matters from the :following explanation.

In the drawings, A A represent the slats, and B C the wires which compose the body of the fence. The wires run diagonally to the slats and in opposite directions, thereby acting to brace the fence longitudinally and render it very firm, as shown in Fig. 1.

The method of securing the wires to each alternate slat is best seen in the enlarged view,

Fig. 2, by which it will be observed that the 5o wire B, passing upward from t to m, crosses the Wire C at m, thence passes behind theslat A and downward to c, at which point it is brought to the front of the slat and carried downward to c, where its direction is again reversed, and it is passed horizontally across the rear of the slat to w, where it is bent upwardly and crosses the wire C again at t, from which point to r it assumes its normal con rse, or the same as from fr to m.

It will be observed that the wire C does not pass around the slat, but crosses its face horizontally at Z, and passes under or is interlocked with the wire B at either side thereof, as shown at tm. l

For convenience of reference, the slats in the drawings have been marked from 1 to 5, respectively, the method described of securing the wires to the alternate slats, as shownin Fig.

2, being that followed in securing the wires to 7: the slats numbered 1, 3, and 5, respectively.

The method followed for the intervening slats, or those numbered 2 and 11, is slightly different, and will be understood by reference to Fig. 1, where it will be observed that the wire B passes under or behind the wire C, as shown at 14, then horizontally across the front of the slat, as shown at 15, then horizontally across the rear of the slat, then horizontally across `the front again, as shown at 16, then under or 80 behind the wire C, as shown at 17, and Yon to the next slat, the wire C passing over or in front of the wire B at 14. and 17, instead of under or behind it, as shown at tm in Fig. 2, the twist or arrangement of the wires being substantially reversed at cach alternate Slat--u that is to say, that for the slat 3 being the rew verse of that for the slat 4, and so on throughout the series.

A horizontally-arranged wire cable, D, is sc- 9o cured to thelower ends of theslatsAby the wire bands 25, a corresponding cable being secured to the upper ends ofthe slats in like manner, as shown in Fig. l. A tie-wire or binder, E, is also secured by the bands 25 to the lower 95 ends ofthe slats, a corresponding binder, E, being secured to their upper ends. The ends of the binder-wires are respectively fastened to the slats l and 5, and their object is to assist in keeping the slats from spreading or becoming displaced.

I do not conne myself to the use of tbe 5 binder E or cable D, :1s one 0r both may be omitted. Neither do I confine myselfto using two cables or two binders when a cable and binder, one or both, are employed; nor to the special method shown for fastening them to the 1o slats, as any suitable method may be employed. Having thus explained .my invention, what I claim is- In a fence of the character described, the

combination of the slats A and wires C, said Wires ruiming diagonally to the slats in 15 opposite directions, the WiresB being Wrapped once around each alternate slat and crossing the Wires C at the front thereof, and Wrapped once around each intermediate slat and crossing the Wires C at the rear thereof, substan- 2o tially as shown and described.

BENJAMIN SCARLES.

Witnesses:

O. M. SHAW, E. LfSAWYER. 

